The Strongest Knight

Hei Yu's speed is such that under extreme conditions he can easily travel 5,000 miles a day.

There was still time to spare, so Gray wasn't in such a rush.

Gray asked Heiyu to fly two thousand kilometers every day, and every night they would stop to rest in nearby towns or villages.

After traveling for seven days, we finally saw the shadow of Tehran, the capital of the Dru Kingdom.

As one of the largest cities in the Northern Territory, Tehran is over 100 kilometers wide from north to south and from east to west, and covers an area of ​​over 10,000 square kilometers.

There are more than 50 million people living in Tehran, the capital of the Drew Kingdom.

After several expansions, the urban area of ​​Tehran can now be divided into three parts.

One is the inner city of Tehran, which is closest to the royal palace. It has a population of only about three million, and the land is extremely valuable. A house often requires tens of thousands of gold coins to buy.

Then there is the outer city formed around the inner city. The population of the outer city is about 10 million. The history of the outer city is thousands of years, and the land available for development is basically saturated. Many dignitaries will choose to move out of the inner city and buy larger plots of land in the outer city to build manors. The outer city has been officially recognized as the urban area of ​​Tehran.

Outside the outer city is the suburbs of Tehran. Although it is called the suburbs, the population living here exceeds 30 million, with houses rising one after another. It is also the side of Tehran that is most presented to ordinary people.

Before he even reached the outskirts of the city, Gray was stopped by a team of griffin riders who were patrolling the suburbs.

"No flight without permission in Tehran airspace!"

Gray touched his bald head and sensed the strength level of this team of griffin knights. The strongest one was only at the level of an upper-level knight apprentice.

Despite this, they remained calm when faced with the aura of blood energy that was accidentally purified thrice that was released by Grete.

It's worthy of being the royal capital.

Gray nodded to the griffin knights, drove Black Feather down, landed on the ground, and put Black Feather into the magic pet bag.

After watching Gray land, the griffin knights did not bother with him any further and went to patrol other places.

Griffin riders like these can be seen everywhere in the suburbs of Tehran, minimizing the possibility of criminals appearing.

There are thousands of roads in the suburbs of Tehran, but only eight main roads leading to the outer city are the widest. Unlike those complicated small roads, street vendors are not allowed on the main roads. There are only neat shops on both sides.

Every main road is so straight that you can't see the end at a glance, but the streets are always bustling with people. Even the outermost part of the city is very popular.

Gray landed on one of the main roads. Although flying mounts were rare, Black Feather was extremely majestic, so he did not attract many people.

Gray's destination was the inner city, and it was a long way to walk from the suburbs to the inner city.

There were many carriages for rent parked on the road. Gray stopped one and paid a silver coin. The carriage carried Gray towards the outer city.

The main road was well maintained and smooth. Sitting in the carriage and enjoying the scenery of the royal capital, I didn't feel uncomfortable at all.

It took a full three hours for the carriage to reach the end of the main road and the outer city wall.

Gray got off the carriage and looked at the long queue of people entering the city. He was shocked at first, then he breathed a sigh of relief after seeing an empty knight-only passage.

"Knight Grey Christian of Birch Castle, welcome to the royal capital." The person in charge of the knight's passage was a beautiful female officer. She smiled at Grey and returned Grey's knight certificate.

Gray had not yet had the chance to participate in the King's knighthood, and did not have his own knighthood medal, so he could only use the certificate given by this teacher to verify his identity.

Otherwise, if he had the Knight's Medal, the Griffin Knight would not have stopped Gray. Gray could have let Black Feather fly directly into the inner city, saving a lot of time.

"Thank you." Gray grinned, stroked the hilt of the long sword at his waist, and walked into the outer city passage.

On the other side of the passage is the more elaborately laid out outer city of Tehran.

There are still a lot of people on the streets, but it is obvious that the residents of the outer city are much better than the residents of the suburbs in terms of clothing and mental outlook.

Ordinary people need to pay an entrance fee of three copper kels to enter the outer city.

Gray took the knights' exclusive passage, which saved him the entrance fee.

Walking on the roads in the outer city, Gray would occasionally see soldiers passing by.

Even the lower-ranking inspectors saw a few of them.

The distance from the outer city to the inner city was not very far, and it only took an hour to walk for Gray to arrive at the inner city gate.

Compared with the outer city gate which is more than ten meters high, the inner city gate has a fifty-meter-high city wall which is incredibly magnificent.

The inner city of Drew Capital is not accessible to ordinary people.

As the political center of the entire Drew Kingdom and where the king resides, the level of defense here is incredibly high.

At each of the four entrances to the inner city, there is a middle-level inspector stationed.

When Gray entered the city, the middle inspector swept his lightning-like eyes over Gray.

After sensing the faint aura of blood energy from Gray, he uttered two words, which was rare: "Not bad."

Gray was surprised to find that this middle-level inspector was actually a high-ranking knight who practiced blood training techniques.

So after discovering that Gray was a practitioner of the blood training method, he did not show any disgust.

It is really great that Gray can practice the blood training method to this level at his age.

After carefully looking at Gray's entry certificate, the soldiers let Gray enter the inner city.

Gray nodded to the middle-level inspector, who did not respond. Gray shrugged and walked into the inner city.

In the inner city, there are very few pedestrians walking around, and most of the people traveling on the streets are in horse-drawn carriages.

There are still seven days left until the qualifying round, but registration for the qualifying round is in advance.

Seeing that it was still early, Gray walked towards the palace and simply completed the registration today.

The royal palace occupies one-fifth of the entire inner city.

Therefore, Gray saw the towering buildings in the palace from a distance after walking a few steps, and arrived at the main gate of the palace after walking a few steps.

"What a luxury." Gray sighed as he looked at the huge stone statue of the king embedded in the middle of the main entrance of the palace.

The guards here in the palace are not that obvious. Gray knows that this is because the defensive forces are hiding in the dark.

There are probably quite a few paladins in the palace.

After explaining his purpose to the guards at the main gate of the palace and verifying Gray's identity, two guards with the strength of upper-level knight apprentices took Gray into the palace.

The palace was as prosperous as Gray had expected. Gray had already prepared himself mentally and was not too surprised.

Quietly following the guards on the road inside the palace.

"Sir, this is the Grey Knight who has come to register for the competition."

The guard took Gray to a palace, where he met the person in charge of registration for the qualifying round, a high-ranking knight with white hair.

"Okay." The old upper knight who was happily playing chess responded and looked up at Gray.